TCF Ep. 502 - Sarah Leen

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Leen is the former Director of Photography for National Geographic Visual Media. For nearly 20 years before that she worked as a freelance photographer for National Geographic magazine until 2004, when she joined the staff as a Senior Photo Editor. Sarah published 16 stories and produced five covers for the magazine. Sarah has taught photography and photo editing workshops at the Missouri Photo Workshops, the International Center of Photography in New York City, the Maine Photography Workshops, the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, and the Palm Beach Photographic Centre. As the Director of Photography Sarah led the photo and video staff for National Geographic Visual Media, including National Geographic and Traveler magazines, the National Geographic photography studio and the photo engineering department. In 2019, Sarah Leen founded The Visual Thinking Collective as a community for independent photo editors, teachers and visual managers to serve photographers, media, art and academic institutions, NGOs, and corporate clients in telling their stories in unique, authentic and highly visual ways. Photographer Links: Education Resources: Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	In the 14 years of the Candid Frame, we have featured many conversations with photographers who have worked for National Geographic magazine.
0:17.0	Each conversation has provided wonderful insights into what's involved in producing
0:23.2	images for a magazine that has set the bar for visual storytelling. But the photographs in
0:30.0	NetGeo exist not because a photographer just traveled to some exotic location. The work is a
0:37.3	collaboration of a team of researchers,
0:40.4	writers, and photo editors. Sarah Lean in her career with the magazine has worked as both the photographer
0:47.0	and the photo editor. She brings a wealth of experiences and wisdom about understanding the language of photography.
0:55.8	I have, you know, looking at people's work, and there's some photograph, and it's a beautiful
1:00.7	image, but they're piling on so much on that picture. So this is about climate change, and it's
1:06.5	showing, it's about this, and it's about that, and actually it's not, you know, the text
1:10.5	will be, or the caption will be, but the picture, it's about this and it's about that and actually it's not you know that the text will be
1:10.9	or the caption will be but the picture it's actually more simplistic in terms of what it can
1:16.6	do and what it's actually saying and having people understand that difference i think is really
1:24.5	important like what's the because photography speaks so emotionally.
1:29.7	It's all about your, it's emotions, especially if you don't have any text with them.
1:33.7	And you're just, like, when I look at people's work, I don't want to really know anything
1:37.4	about it at first.
1:39.6	I want to see what does it say to me, you know, just visually.
1:44.4	We'll talk to Sarah about the life she's led both as a photographer and an editor and how
1:49.6	she pulled off her first assignment for National Geographic.
1:54.4	This is Ibarianx and welcome back to the Candid Frame.
2:05.6	Thank you. Welcome back to The Candid Frame. Well, welcome to the show.
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